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honcho Shrimp Breeder

honcho

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i was checking out some videos of bee shrimp in the wild via utube and it got me thinking..?!

looks fun and intersting :D

id really like to go and check out some wild native shrimp in perth wa ..

does anyone know if there is any around,what are they, and were can i find them..

any help or direction would be much appreciated..

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Kimbo Shrimp Keeper

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There definitley is, there is atleast glass shrimp around in the canning river. Also I remember a few years a go the wiz got some white glass shrimp aswell that held their colour in the tanks. I think youd be better off finding different stuff if you went avon valley way and looked around there than closer to the city.

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The Canning used to have heaps of glass shrimps, used to catch em for my Oscars and Lion Fish...Went down to Waroona Dam last year, and didn't notice any, but for tank conditions, we'd probably need to go much further north....

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honcho Shrimp Breeder

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woohoo..!

i went out shrimping today for the first time, after i was informed by a mate about indisclosed location for shrimp in suburbia..

i caught 6 in total.. i think they are only glassies but i had heaps of fun, can some one tell me what they are..?post-538-139909847434_thumb.jpgpost-538-139909847437_thumb.jpgpost-538-139909847439_thumb.jpgpost-538-139909847443_thumb.jpg

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I don't have my book handy so I can't tell you which species it is, but it's Palaemonetes spp. It's in my "Freshwater Fish of South Western Australia" book.

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